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A bidirectional study in L2 acquisition of pragmatics: The case of (un-)bounded adjectival scales 第二语言语用习得的双向研究：无）界限形容词量表的案例

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2024-07-27 DOI: 10.1177/02676583241264550

Glenn Starr, Emilie Destruel

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Feature reassembly and L1 preemption: Acquiring CLLD in L2 Italian and L2 Romanian. 特征重组和L1抢占:获取L2意大利语和L2罗马尼亚语的CLLD

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Epub Date: 2023-05-21 DOI: 10.1177/02676583231156307

Liz Smeets

{"title":"Feature reassembly and L1 preemption: Acquiring CLLD in L2 Italian and L2 Romanian.","authors":"Liz Smeets","doi":"10.1177/02676583231156307","DOIUrl":"10.1177/02676583231156307","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigates feature acquisition and feature reassembly associated with Clitic Left Dislocation (CLLD). The article compares the acquisition of CLLD in second language (L2) Italian to L2 Romanian to examine effects of first language (L1) transfer, construction frequency and the type of interface involved (external vs. internal interface) within the same syntactic construction. The results from an acceptability judgment task and a written elicitation task show that while English near-native speakers of Italian/Romanian acquired the L2 constraints on CLLD, which is [+anaphor] for Italian and [+specific] for Romanian, data from both Romanian L2 learners of Italian and Italian L2 learners of Romanian showed persistent L1 transfer effects. Target-like acquisition for these groups requires both grammatical expansion and retraction; Romanian CLLD requires the addition of an L1-unavailable [+specific] feature and the loss of a [+anaphor] feature, while Italian CLLD requires the addition of an L1-unavailable [+anaphor] and the loss of a [+specific] feature. The reported findings extend evidence in favour of the Feature Reassembly Hypothesis to the syntax-discourse interface, as reassembly of interpretational features associated with CLLD proved more difficult than feature acquisition. While learners at the near-native levels were able to broaden the contexts that allow a clitic in the L2 (grammatical expansion), L1 preemption difficulties were attested as well. This was the case regardless of the frequency of the relevant construction in the input and the type of L2 feature that needed to be added/removed.</p>","PeriodicalId":47414,"journal":{"name":"Second Language Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11288789/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45801745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Learning to predict: Second language perception of reduced multi-word sequences 学习预测：第二语言对缩减的多词序列的感知

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2024-05-28 DOI: 10.1177/02676583241246147

David Tizón-Couto, David Lorenz

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The effects of incidental learning and input frequency on the perception of non-native speech 附带学习和输入频率对非母语语音感知的影响

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2024-05-23 DOI: 10.1177/02676583241249348

Andrew H. Lee, Jackie S. Lloyd

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High is good enough: Gender agreement and relative clause attachment in L2 auditory processing 高就足够好第二语言听觉加工中的性别一致和相对从句附着

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2024-05-06 DOI: 10.1177/02676583241246733

Daniel Vergara, Gilda Socarrás

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Complex dynamic systems theory as a foundation for process-oriented research on second language development 复杂动态系统理论是以过程为导向的第二语言发展研究的基础

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2024-04-28 DOI: 10.1177/02676583241246739

Marijn van Dijk, Wander Lowie, Nienke Smit, Marjolijn Verspoor, Paul van Geert

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The relationship between L2 learners’ production and perception of English vowels: The role of native-speaker acoustic patterns in production 第二语言学习者英语元音的发音与感知之间的关系：母语声学模式在发音中的作用

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2024-04-26 DOI: 10.1177/02676583241240868

Jae Yung Song, Fred Eckman

{"title":"The relationship between L2 learners’ production and perception of English vowels: The role of native-speaker acoustic patterns in production","authors":"Jae Yung Song, Fred Eckman","doi":"10.1177/02676583241240868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583241240868","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the abundance of research on the relationship between second language (L2) learners’ production and perception of target-language contrasts, the nature and details of this connection remain unclear. The aim of this study was to extend our understanding of the relationship by investigating whether learners who can produce L2 vowels with the same acoustic properties as those used by native speakers of the target language also perceive the vowels more accurately. To this end, we examined the production and perception of two English vowel contrasts (tense /i/ vs. lax /ɪ/, mid /ε/ vs. low /æ/) in 29 native-speakers of American English and 33 L2 learners of English from three native-language backgrounds: Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish. We found that the L2 learners who produced distinctions between the target vowels using the same acoustic properties as do native speakers of English had significantly better perception scores for these vowels compared to the learners who distinguished the vowels using a pattern of acoustic properties that is not used by native speakers. This was also true when their patterns were compared to the learners who did not make any acoustic distinctions at all. The findings provide compelling evidence that L2 learners’ production patterns are linked to their perception skills.","PeriodicalId":47414,"journal":{"name":"Second Language Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140800579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Lexical production and cognitive control in sequential bilinguals immersed in two different contexts of language use 沉浸在两种不同语言使用环境中的连续双语者的词汇生成与认知控制

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2024-04-23 DOI: 10.1177/02676583241244606

Alejandra Jessica Raisman-Carlovich, Natalia Arias-Trejo, Elia Haydée Carrasco-Ortiz

{"title":"Lexical production and cognitive control in sequential bilinguals immersed in two different contexts of language use","authors":"Alejandra Jessica Raisman-Carlovich, Natalia Arias-Trejo, Elia Haydée Carrasco-Ortiz","doi":"10.1177/02676583241244606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583241244606","url":null,"abstract":"Recent investigations have highlighted that the linguistic characteristics of the contexts in which bilinguals are immersed might account for processing differences both at the lexical and cognitive levels. The present study examined the extent to which verbal and non-verbal cognitive performance in bilinguals varied as a function of two different contexts of language use: separate or integrated. The separate context was characterized by participants’ use of Spanish and English in specific situations and with different interlocutors, whereas the integrated context was characterized by the frequent use of both languages in the same situations and with the same interlocutors. Participants were two groups of young Mexican-born sequential Spanish-L1–English-L2 bilinguals ( n = 50, 34 females), who reported either the separate or integrated use of both languages. We found a positive correlation between overall linguistic exposure and the number of words produced in English in a Category Fluency task for bilinguals in the integrated context. Our results also showed that more frequent code-switching positively correlated with the magnitude of the interference effect as measured with a Flanker task, but only for participants in the separate context. These results suggest that the separate or more integrated use of the more dominant language (L1) and the less dominant one (L2) can impact bilinguals’ performance differently in verbal and non-verbal cognitive tasks.","PeriodicalId":47414,"journal":{"name":"Second Language Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140669206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The effect of second-language learning experience on Korean listeners’ use of pitch cues in the perception of Cantonese tones 第二语言学习经验对韩国听者使用音高线索感知粤语音调的影响

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2024-04-10 DOI: 10.1177/02676583241244604

Zhen Qin, Sang-Im Lee-Kim, Haifeng Qi

{"title":"The effect of second-language learning experience on Korean listeners’ use of pitch cues in the perception of Cantonese tones","authors":"Zhen Qin, Sang-Im Lee-Kim, Haifeng Qi","doi":"10.1177/02676583241244604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583241244604","url":null,"abstract":"Past studies have found that the linguistic experience of previously-acquired languages, such as one’s native-language (L1) and second-language (L2) learning experience, modulates the perception of novel sounds from a third language (L3). Lexical tone in L3 is a good case for testing the influence of L1 or L2, as listeners with varying language backgrounds may use different pitch cues (pitch contour or height) in tone perception. The present study focuses on L2 learners of Mandarin whose L1 variety is either Seoul Korean (SK), a non-tonal stressless language, or Gyeongsang Korean (GK), a tonal pitch-accent language. Intermediate-to-advanced SK-speaking and GK-speaking L2 learners of Mandarin were recruited as target groups, and naive listeners of respective L1 varieties were recruited as control groups. The participants completed an AX forced-choice tone discrimination task. Four Cantonese tones, one rising tone and three level tones, were used. Contour–level and level–level tonal contrasts were target tone pairs, allowing for testing the primary use of pitch contour and pitch height, respectively. The results showed that the two groups of naive listeners had greater accuracy in discriminating level–level than contour–level tonal contrasts. In contrast, L2 learners, independent of their L1 varieties, showed higher accuracy in discriminating contour–level than level–level tonal contrasts. The L2 learners’ perceptual pattern is consistent with Mandarin listeners, as reported in previous work. Taken together, the findings provide evidence for a possible developmental change in which Korean-speaking L2 learners might have a perceptual cue shift from pitch height to pitch contour through their L2 experience in Mandarin. The findings about the role of L2 proficiency in Mandarin further supported the effect of L2 experience on learners’ increased use of pitch contour.","PeriodicalId":47414,"journal":{"name":"Second Language Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140576055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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When multilingualism is more than three: On the nature of gender transfer in L3+ acquisition 当多种语言超过三种时论 L3+ 语言习得中的性别迁移性质

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Second Language Research Pub Date : 2024-03-29 DOI: 10.1177/02676583241237763

Charlotte Englert, Ilaria Venagli, Tanja Kupisch

{"title":"When multilingualism is more than three: On the nature of gender transfer in L3+ acquisition","authors":"Charlotte Englert, Ilaria Venagli, Tanja Kupisch","doi":"10.1177/02676583241237763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02676583241237763","url":null,"abstract":"In this article we investigate transfer in the ab-initio acquisition of grammatical gender in two groups of multilingual learners. The first group knows two gender languages (German and French), which can potentially act as transfer sources; the second group knows three (German, French and Italian). Both groups had to assign gender to nouns in Franco-Provençal, a Romance language which is new to the learners, and which shares similarities with both French and Italian. Based on our data, we address the question whether there is a unique transfer source and what the respective roles of sub-lexical structural similarity, proficiency, and recency of use of the background languages are. The findings of this study reveal that learners of the first group use both French and German as transfer sources, whereas learners in the second group additionally transfer from Italian. We show that the amount of transfer increases with higher proficiency, more recent use of the source language(s), and increasing structural similarity between the source and target language. Finally, not only is the gender feature transferred but also orthographical cues.","PeriodicalId":47414,"journal":{"name":"Second Language Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140365171","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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